Recorded in Marfa, Texas, Vitiello recorded and processed the sounds of the landscape, Donald Judd's sculptures, the town's buildings, and the freight train going through town. This track: pretty quiet and peaceful, but there's also a dark and sci-fi aspect.

Maurizio Bianchi

Die Erbsuende (track 2)
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Das Platinzeitalter

Incunabulum

Like a dark swarm of angry voices, somewhat tormented and gradually gets more so until it quiets down the last few minutes. Platinzeitalter = Platinum Age. "Die Erbsuende" = The Hereditary Sin.

Distort-o, sustained clubby sound under reverbed "lookin' for a human".

I'd highly recommend almost the entire album.

Note: Alan Vega will be performing at WFMU's next free concert: October 13, at Southpaw, in Brooklyn.

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Volt

Testbild (track 3)
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Volt

In The Red

Urgent and sustained beat.

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Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 2: the old radio show portion of the evening.
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Mystery In The Air

Beyond Good And Evil

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Mystery In The Air...a 1947 summer replacement series of only 8 episodes (for Abbott & Costello!), all of which survive. It offered dramatizations of stories from World Literature, and all starred Peter Lorre. Shows were of exceptionally high quality, and often had something of a dark and hallucinatory feel. And they were all done live.

This episode (# 4 in the series): written by Ben Hecht, Peter Lorre plays an escaped criminal who's murdered a reverend and taken his place (amazingly, noone seems to know what the guy looked like), but winds up falling for the other reverend's daughter - played by series regular and lustrously voiced Peggy Webber. Does he get religion? Does he do the "turnabout", as Lord Buckley would later put it? Does he even live? This episode also stars Henry Morgan, and the cancer-causing series sponsor.

From John Dunning's Encyclopedia Of Old-Time Radio: "Lorre delivered intense, supercharged performances of men tortured and driven by dark impulses. He stood alone at a center microphone, raving and wildly gesticulating, while supporting players worked at a second mike facing him."

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Mic break between Sets 2 & 3. Background music played during it:
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Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 3.
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David Soldier, Richard Lair

Thung Kwian Sunrise (track 1)
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Thai Elephant Orchestra

Mulatta

Music created by elephants at a preserve in Thailand, on instruments designed for them by Soldier, Lair, Ken Butler, and others. NOT a novelty act. This piece: fairly relaxed, gamelan-like, and quiet.

Tom Recchion

The Elephant God (track 1)
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Sweetly Doing Nothing

Schoolmap

Metronomic, warm, quiet, feels like you're taking a long and slow voyage to...somewhere peaceful. And no, I didn't notice the title of this piece until after I put this show together.

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rhBand

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Third Order Parasitism

Drunken Fish

Deep solo tone -> more active -> same deep solo tone.

MGR

IV (track 4: faded out about -0:39)
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Nova Lux

Neurot Recordings

On the sentimental, warm and spacey side, low key, a bit acidy. MGR = Mustard Gas And Roses, for those who must know.

Mic break between Sets 3 & 4. Background music played during it:
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Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

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Chris Watson

River Mara At Night (track 5)
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Stepping Into The Dark

Touch

The sounds of hippos and flying beetles on the River Mara....

Gyorgy Ligetti

Lontano fur Grosses Orchester
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Konzert fur Violincello

Wergo

Sort of a high and thin sound.

Phill Niblock

Harm (CD 1, track 1)
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Touch Three

Touch

Treated cello, like a single harmonic sound that gradually changes and kind of throbs, gradually builds and gets more intense, quiets down last 4 minutes.

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Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 5: let's wind up with some swing, yes?
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Ella Fitzgerald

Sam And Delilah (CD 1, track 3)
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Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book

Verve

"Delilah was a floozy", and "she wasn't choosy" - until she met Sam (Samson), that is.

Johnny Hodges

Big Ears (CD 1, track 1)
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The Complete Verve Johnny Hodges Small Group Sessions 1956 - 1961

Verve

Slinky and stylish soul-jazz toe-tapper happy music, nice and bouncy.

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Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Listener comments!

Mon. 10/1/07 11:53pm
(mta) Tony:
Great music to make love by.
From both of us, thanks so much!
What a nice show.

Tue. 10/2/07 1:40am
doug:
very nice to hear Phil Niblock's piece!

Tue. 10/2/07 1:43am
doug:
but this is Ebow'ed guitar and not cello (I am pretty certain; and I think it is Seth Josel performing)...

Note from Andrew to Doug: Thanks for the interest and the comment.

You're close - the piece you're thinking of is actually the next one on this CD (CD 1, track 2), and is even called "Sethwork". I played the piece before it (CD 1, track 1), which is the cello work, played by Anne Deforce.

As I said on the air, I think the entire 3 CD set is fantastic. Every piece is either close to excellent or something special.